IMMIGRATION LAW VIOLATIONS AT HEART OF SEX TRIAL For the past two weeks in Little Rock, Arkansas there has been a heated trial of five people on various immigration law violations, including a charge that they arranged to two Chinese women to come to the US for sexual purposes. In the opening statements of the trial, prosecutors claimed that the five defendants conspired over a period of five and a half years to bring women into the US to satisfy the sexual needs of one defendant. The defense says the two Chinese women at the heart of the prosecution have made up a story of sexual abuse in an effort to remain in the US.
The primary defendant, David Jewell Jones, is accused of arranging for a woman to come into the country and then forcing her to have sex with him every week for a year. Prosecutors claim he met the woman while on a trip to China with a friend who was looking for a wife. This friend, Tony Ma, is also a defendant. Jones arranged for the woman to get a scholarship to a university where he sat on the board of trustees, but when the student visa application was denied, he turned to more fraudulent methods.
According to prosecutors, Jones had another friend, Bob Rushing, also a defendant, file a fiancé visa application for the woman, known in court proceedings as Miss W. When she arrived, another defendant, Mark Riable, a lawyer and part-time magistrate, performed a secret wedding between Rushing and Miss W in a van parked outside a courthouse. Prosecutors say Miss W never lived with Rushing, instead staying in a house owned by Jones and having a sexual relationship with him.
The defense says that Miss W was interested only in marrying a US citizen so she could stay here. They also claim she used Jones to arrange for her to have free surgery to remove an ovarian cyst. Indeed, she did leave the US shortly after the marriage. She then reentered the US under her married name and lived in Seattle for five years. According to prosecutors, after Miss W left, the defendants began conspiring to bring another Chinese woman to the US, known in court as Miss Z, so that Jones could have sex with her. Defense attorneys say the woman was brought to the US to work as a nanny for Ma’s children.
Prosecutors say that once here, the defendants forced her into a sexual relationship with Jones. Despite the allegations of sexual misconduct, Jones has not been charged with any sort of sexual crime.
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